Funded by UK Government through the Technology Strategy Board, Knowledge
Transfer Networks (KTNs) are an effective indirect mechanism for supporting
knowledge transfer. KTNs raise awareness of specific areas of technology, they
facilitate and support research and they are a good mechanism for communication,
networking and loosely sharing knowledge. To this extent they achieve informal
knowledge transfer. KTNs can also form a means of putting those in need in need
of knowledge with potential suppliers of it.